Boxing Day has been boxed up for another year, so now's it back to work.
Much to be done on Steem in all quarters. Much talking, much thinking, much doing.
No big stories today. Steem is just spinning on the spot, but here are a couple of good steemians that are firmly locked in 'do mode'.
Partiko
When it was announced a couple of weeks ago that Tumblr was turning out the lights for a whole chunk of its creators who made various forms of 'adult content' Partiko founder
lept into action and offered an archive home to over 50,000 Tumblr blogs.
Partiko is now starting a trial to onboard those Tumblr users to Steem, by providing free accounts and intial advice on how to get started.
One of the first ex-Tumblr users to make their way to steem is 
Maybe you could hop over to the intro post and show some voting love to welcome them aboard...
and the SBD story
Australia witness (#41)
reckons he might have the answer to the variable SBD value.
Let's try Steem Backed Dollar Points (SBDP)...
CEX.io - an exchange worth persuading ?
I happened to spot a dialogue on Twitter with exchange Cex.io today.
I sneaked in and asked if they took steem.
After there initial negative answer, I asked if they had any plans to take steem.
They replied...
"Thank you for your suggestion.I can't imagine we are going to get lucky a second time but it might be worth a try.We are watching the market closely and in case there is a demand for this particular cryptocurrency we will consider adding it."
Maybe we could start a gentle little campaign on Twitter to drip feed pro-steem messages to Cex.io
Read. Absorb. Digest. Discuss. Act. Together.
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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & 
]
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price | US$ 0.276/td> | 2018-12-27 05:41 UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 0.676 | 2018-12-27 05:41 UTC |
| Market Cap | US$ 84,410,252 | 2018-12-27 05:41 UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #52 (+1) | 2018-12-27 05:41 UTC |
| No. of Whales | 36 (n/c) | 2018-12-25 |
| No. of Orcas | 312 (+1) | 2018-12-25 |
| No. of Dolphins | 1938 (n/c) | 2018-12-25 |
| No. of Minnows | 9084 (-3) | 2018-12-25 |
for more statistics.
NEWS FROM STEEMIT INC
- Open Letter to Ned
NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES
#2
- Bitshares Worker Proposal for Steem Monsters
#25
#36 
#41
#42 
#58 
#66 
#71 
#123 
#125 
#132 
#187 
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If you want to check on progress of development on Steem, check out the GitHub here...
- https://github.com/steemit/steem/branches
MEDIA COVERAGE OF STEEM & STEEMIT INC
Yahoo Finance - Steem Added to State of the DApps Listings
This is #24 of this daily news service.
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